Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.
Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."
Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.
Hey Baby Jam
Jimi Hendrix Lyrics
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Hey, Baby... where do you come from?
Well she looked at me and smiled and looked into Space...
and said, "I'm comin' from the land of a new Rising Sun."
Then I said, "Hey Baby, where ya tryin' to go to?"
Then she says, "I'm gonna spin and spread around Peace of Mind...
and a whole lotta Love to you and you!"
Yes, I'd like to come along!
"Would you like to come along?" she asked me.
Yes take me along, right now!
Hey Baby, can I step into your World a while?
"Yes you can," she said, "come on back with me for a while-
we're gonna go cross the Jupiter's sands,
and see all your people one by one!
We gotta help the people out, right now...
that's what I'm doing here, all about."
Yeah! Yeah! May I come along?
May I come along?
May I come along? Yeah! Yeah!
Please take me!
The lyrics of Jimi Hendrix's song Hey Baby undertake psychedelic themes and touches upon the idea of mind expansion and exploration. The lyrics begin with a simple question, "Is the microphone on?" which sets the tone for the conversation between the singer and the woman referred to as "Baby." The singer then asks the woman where she comes from, to which she responds with a smile and says, "I'm coming from the land of a new Rising Sun," implying something supernatural or extraterrestrial.
The conversation between the singer and the woman continues to develop, with the singer expressing his willingness to follow her and asking her where she plans to go. The woman answers that she wants to spread love and peace of mind, which the singer is more than happy to accept. The woman then invites the singer to join her, and they go on a journey to see all the people, cross Jupiter's sands, and help people out.
Through the lyrics, Jimi Hendrix seems to suggest that the woman represents a type of guru or mystic, leading the singer on a journey of discovering the self and the world. The song's themes of exploration, helping people, and spreading love resonate with the counterculture movement of the 1960s, which sought a new way of living, free from societal norms and values.
Line by Line Meaning
Is the microphone on?
Checking if the microphone is on to start singing.
Hey, Baby... where do you come from?
Addressing a woman and asking where she is from.
Well she looked at me and smiled and looked into Space...
The woman responds to the question with a smile and a gaze at the sky.
and said, "I'm comin' from the land of a new Rising Sun."
The woman identifies herself as coming from a place of change or revolution.
Then I said, "Hey Baby, where ya tryin' to go to?"
Asking the woman where she wants to go.
Then she says, "I'm gonna spin and spread around Peace of Mind...
The woman responds by saying that she wants to spread love and peace to all.
and a whole lotta Love to you and you!"
She promises to give love to the person she is speaking to and all others.
Hey, Girl! I'd like to come along!
Showing interest in joining the woman on her journey.
Yes, I'd like to come along!
Reiterating the desire to travel with the woman.
"Would you like to come along?" she asked me.
Asking the person if they would like to join her on her journey.
Yes take me along, right now!
Expressing eagerness to travel with the woman immediately.
Hey Baby, can I step into your World a while?
Asking the woman if the person can enter her world temporarily.
"Yes you can," she said, "come on back with me for a while-
The woman grants permission to the person to join her on her journey.
we're gonna go cross the Jupiter's sands,
The woman describes traveling across the surface of Jupiter.
and see all your people one by one!
She wants to visit and help all the people she encounters on her journey.
We gotta help the people out, right now...
Emphasizing the importance of helping others.
that's what I'm doing here, all about.
Explaining that her journey is focused on helping others.
Yeah! Yeah! May I come along?
A plea to join the woman on her journey.
May I come along? Yeah! Yeah!
Repeating the request to join the woman.
Please take me!
A final request to be taken along on the journey.
Lyrics Β© Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: JIMI HENDRIX
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@ke018co1
No other ro artist death makes as sad as jimi . So much talent this man had and such a pioneer of music so frustrating to me that he passed so young . Thank god his music still lives on
@kristofernewton422
YES...HeartBreaking.
@h.m.mcgreevy7787
Through Time Immortal...
There Will Be Jimmie!
@markblaine8104
And ALWAYS will be. The posers will fall by the way side. But real talent is......timeless.
Look at how many are already forgotten.
@ke018co1
@@markblaine8104 exactly
@howardlewis7804
They murdered Jimi because he wanted out of the Reprise/British cocaine/heroin mob. He was out with friends celebrating and partying, went home and appears to have been ambushed. Same swine as did Fukushima, COVID19, Dominion vote fraud, the WTC destruction, etc..The Rockefeller/British royal/Bush cabal. Been on it for 55 years, while Hendrix still performed. These people do worse, and hide behind fancy suits and bad teeth.
@TheNaturalust
Jimi is in every note I play and every note I ever will.
@baraz71
this was more than 40 years ago, can you believe it? Jimi's music is eternal...
@cheesepuff5577
Now itβs half a century old
@frankzanka648
You mean more than 50....